From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262527AbVHDN2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:28:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262529AbVHDN2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:28:55 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:51407 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262527AbVHDN2y (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:28:54 -0400 Subject: [patch] inotify: update help text From: Robert Love To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mr Morton , The Cutch Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:28:55 -0400 Message-Id: <1123162135.30486.16.camel@betsy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The inotify help text still refers to the character device. Update it. Fixes kernel bug #4993. Signed-off-by: Robert Love fs/Kconfig | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-git8/fs/Kconfig 2005-07-27 10:59:32.000000000 -0400 +++ linux/fs/Kconfig 2005-08-04 09:26:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -363,12 +363,15 @@ bool "Inotify file change notification support" default y ---help--- - Say Y here to enable inotify support and the /dev/inotify character - device. Inotify is a file change notification system and a + Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system + calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring - of both files and directories via a single open fd. Multiple file - events are supported. + of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features + include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount + notification. + + For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt If unsure, say Y.